Students will enjoy being a real desert botanist and using their scientific process skills to investigate the secrets of Sonoran plant life. The tour will focus on desert leaves, seeds, colors, and water storage in succulents. Working in small groups, students will complete a variety of challenging and instructive experiments, and present data to the whole group at the conclusion.
- Observe a variety of plants and their characteristics
- Collect data to be analyzed in small groups
- Construct graphs for data analysis to interpret and answer questions
- Present data to the whole group and discuss it
- Describe/define the scientific process
- Understand that they are scientists (problem solvers)
- Understand the steps of the scientific method
- Understand what kind of graph to use for different types of data
- Data Journals
- Temperature sensors
- Seeds of desert plants
- Examples of graphs: bar, line and Venn diagram
